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Alok Prasanna Kumar

The evolution of India’s legal system and its impact on the economy

The Ganguli-Dutt Bind

Bibek Debroy

Is it the government’s job to support translators?

How India Became British India

Ullekh NP

The Battle of Plassey contributed to the making and unmaking of empires

A Coat of Many Colours

Hasan Askari and Nasreen Askari

The contribution of Hindus to the arts and crafts of Sindh before Partition

When Edwina Missed India and Nehru

Andrew Lownie

The many loves of the Mountbattens

East India Company: The Evil Empire

Manu S Pillai

The White-Brown nexus comes alive in William Dalrymple’s compelling portrait of the East India Company

David Gilmour: ‘The Raj-bashers are oversimplifying a long and very varied period of history’

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S Prasannarajan in Open Conversation with David Gilmour, English historian

Deborah Baker: Portraits of Passion

Devapriya Roy

The lives of poets and explorers in the twilight of the Raj

Calcutta of the Mind

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

Modern India’s first capital was also its most global

Editor’s Note: The Truth of the Matter

S Prasannarajan

Reading 'My Experiments with Truth' in the age of populism

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British India

Market Laws

The Ganguli-Dutt Bind

How India Became British India

A Coat of Many Colours

When Edwina Missed India and Nehru

East India Company: The Evil Empire

David Gilmour: ‘The Raj-bashers are oversimplifying a long and very varied period of history’

Deborah Baker: Portraits of Passion

Calcutta of the Mind

Editor’s Note: The Truth of the Matter

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